to be closer to their teams, CNBC's Annie Palmer reports. In some cases, that means staffers have to move out of state. Several Amazon employees told CNBC that the relocation demands are too onerous and disruptive to their personal lives, so they've decided to quit rather than uproot.
, according to an estimate by Moody's RMS, which looked at property damage and business interruptions to make the determination. The estimate does not consider any effect the wildfires had on Hawaii's gross domestic product, government spending on the response to the catastrophe or the social cost of the fires. That means the true cost is almost certainly higher than the estimate. They were the deadliest U.S.